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It’s a world of gastronomic delight across the region this week, with the ongoing Brighton & Hove Food Festival briefly battling for our taste-buds with Hastings' Seafood & Wine Festival. And there's more...

AUDIO’S 6^TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, AUDIO, BRIGHTON Fri 17. £10

Club event of the weekend is Audio’s mega birthday party tonight (Friday). Guest headliners are star producers Simian Mobile Disco, due to perform a storming DJ set. Support comes from Bloggers’ Delight’s Casper C, as well as Scthumm and Disco Deviant DJs. The night starts at 11pm, but goodness knows when it’ll end.

FIERY FOODS UK CHILLI FESTIVAL, PAVILION GARDENS, BRIGHTON Sat 18 – Sun 19. £3

One of the popular highlights of the Brighton Food Festival, this weekend’s Fiery Foods chilli extravaganza is an unmissable opportunity for the bravehearted to sample some of the world’s hottest foods. We’re not joking, there are some dangerously hot chillis and sauces on offer! Live music and kids’ activities are laid on for the rest of us lightweights.

SEAFOOD & WINE FESTIVAL, ROCK-A-NORE, HASTINGS Sat 18 – Sun 19. Free

Hastings celebrates its busy fishing community with the annual Seafood & Wine Festival this weekend too. As well as countless varieties of food and drink available on the stalls and at participating restaurants and cafes, there’s dance displays and other live entertainment, and a Pretty Crafty market in George Street featuring work by the town’s artistic community.

THE JAMES CLEAVER QUINTET, SAMBAR, EASTBOURNE Sun 19. Free

2010 has treated Eastbourne’s JCQ very well, with their chaotic noise rock tearing up festivals across the country this summer, and plentiful national press coverage. The group have just announced a UK tour supporting Brighton’s scuzz legends The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, but here’s a chance to catch them in their hometown, as part of Sambar's series of Sunday shows.

CARRIE TREE, LATEST MUSIC BAR, BRIGHTON Sun 19. £4

Finally, a more relaxed way to end the weekend comes from Brighton folkie Carrie Tree. East caught her last year at a One Taste Collective show at the old Hanbury Ballroom, with a backing band of various familiar Brighton musicians, and that was pretty damn good, so take a wander down to the Latest Music Bar and check her out for yourselves.